Myth- Digital images should not be admissible, because it can be manipulated.

Myth-The original images does not change by the watermarking.

Facts Not necessarily, some crimes are investigated by the Forensic Experts just to establish corpus delicti. Cases like Burglary also involves forensic examination.

Myth - Forensic work is only laboratory orientated.

Facts - Not true, work of a forensic scientist extends to crime scene too. Crime Scene Photography and evidence collection is also done by Forensic Scientist.

Myth - A case can be solved within minute and even seconds

Facts - No it is not true as the examination of the case depends upon the type of evidence, number of evidence and various other factors. In fact, time is an independent entity.

Myth - All labs are equipped with high-end, sophisticated Instrument.

Facts - Not necessarily, although almost all the labs are equipped with required instruments but technology is growing rapidly keeping each and every instruments up to date is not easy.

Myth - On TV we see the analysis of evidence to be fast and simple.

Facts - In real life, crime labs can take weeks or months to analyze and process an evidences and the evidence usually goes through several sections before the analysis is complete. Certain chemical processes can also take days which slows the speed of analysis. If a piece of evidence has to go through several types of chemical analyses, the process takes longer time.

Myth - Fingerprints are present at every crime scene.

Facts - It is not true mostly fingerprint are found at the crime scene but, in a well-planned crime chances of finding print becomes almost zero.

Myths - All crime scene is processed immediately.

Facts - Processing of crime scene depends upon the information received by Investigation Officer. The sooner police is informed, sooner the crime gets investigate.

Myth - On TV, all of the crimes are solved and the criminals are brought to justice and punished.

Facts - Reel life is hugely different from real life. Although majority of crimes are solved in a giffy. There are crimes which remains unsolved forever. Such as 'Aarushi Murder Case'.

Myth - Cyber forensic is only related to high profile cases.

Fact – Simple act such as log in into someone’s Facebook account without his/her concert can fall under cybercrimes. Crimes that gets under media limelight surely are high profile nature but there are cases which are not usually high profile in nature and goes unidentified.

Myth - Only Computers are analyzed in computer forensic

Fact - Computer forensics means, searching, collection and analysis of the data recovered from the electronic device or electronic storage media. So, computer forensics is not limited to the desktop computers, laptops, cell phones, tablets. Computer forensics can recover deleted files and give unique information which is not accessible by the user.

Myth - The collection of relevant information is very quick and easy process.

Fact - Time varies in collection of evidences in digital forensic because each case is different as in each case the potential for the existence of relevant electronic data is different. And the request for search can range from collecting a few text messages off of a mobile phone to collecting thousands of relevant documents from a server which is time dependent.

Myth - Digital data can be retrieved by anybody.

Fact - In the field of cyber forensic, experts use an authentic way to collect the electronic data. The data like taking screenshot of emails, text messages is not be acceptable in the court. The winning or losing depends upon the way of collecting and presenting the relevant data. So people or expert with proper knowledge about retrieving the data can only handle such situation.

Myths- Bullets always matches with the gun from which they are fired

Fact- Mostly bullets are damaged and they fail to match from the barrel of firearm so mostly we compare digital images of bullets and cartridge case. Cartridge case carry more information than the actual bullet

Fact- Investigator never taste any powder or anything from crime scene they have portable kits for preliminary test and proper collection and packaging takes place for identification. Any alteration or evaluation hampers the chain of custody hence effecting the admissibility of evidence.

Myth - Fingerprint is necessary to catch a thief.

Fact- Surely fingerprint acts as an evidence of value to establish corpus delecti. But in case it is not present there would be other evidences which would help to solve the crime and catch the thief.

Myth - Criminal Profiling based on the fingerprints are usually accepted.

Fact- It is not necessary that the fingerprint base searches are accepted widely. Different states have different norms, like some have in-state entities and the others have mixed far for the course involving fingerprint based searches. In Louisiana house, the searches of criminal background using fingerprint is mandatory, in contrast, In Wisconsin state, there was name based criminal history check process.

Myth - Password are less secure than fingerprints security

Fact- Not true, even fingerprints are not wholly secure. For instances in America, Homeland security collects the fingerprint of non US citizen as they enter the country. Then it is recorder in the file by the FBI. These sensitive information can be possibly be stolen just like the credit cards and pin numbers and it can be used further as unkindly.

Myth - Passwords will be replaced by the fingerprints in future.

Fact- No, it is not like that the fingerprints can replace the password. As there are so many technologies becoming advanced due to which fingerprints can be stolen or can copied. It is very clear that the time when passwords become outdated is far away, even than the passwords will going to be used for a long time.

Myth- Digital images should not be admissible, because it can be manipulated.

Fact- Experts are capable to determine that a digital image, film photography, or film negatives has been altered or not. The truthfulness of digital images can be secured by various methods.

Myth-The original images does not change by the watermarking.

Fact- As the image is originally captured by a camera so the watermarking may change the image content. Watermarking is a possibly irreversible process of implanting information into a digital signal. It modifies the content of the file and also preserve as a part of file. Watermarking is generally not recommended as a forensic technique.

Myth- On television, TV police and forensic scientists always seem to be able to bend the law in their favour in order to solve crimes.

In reality, there are stringent procedures in place to ensure that the law is always obeyed and never tampered with during the solving of a crime. Certain procedures are compulsory, for example the storage and analysing of evidence in a laboratory i.e no evidence should be taken out of its storage area for the personal interest of a forensic scientist.
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